Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events Henri III of France revived the Académie du Palais, and Philippe Desportes becomes one of its most active members.Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), , "Phillipe Desportes" p 157

Works published France Rémy Belleau: Les Amours et nouveaux échanges despierres précieuses,France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, also known as Pierres précieusesWeinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), , "Rémy Belleau" p 140 poems on the image and arcane powers of precious stoneMagnusson, Magnus, general editor, Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and W & R Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, fifth edition, 1990, Eclogues sacréesWeinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), , "Jean-Antoine de Baif" p 132 Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works

Great Britain The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies, anthology Thomas Achelley, A Most Lamentable and Tragicall HistorieCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, George Gascoigne, The Steele Glas: a Satyre; Togither with the Complainte of Phylomene, called the first non-dramatic poem in blank verse in the English language; an "estates" satire George Whetstone, The Rocke of Regard, mostly verse

Other Baptista Mantuanus, Opera Omnia ("Complete Works"), Italian poet writing in Latin, Antwerp Tulsidas, Ramcharitmanas, Indian poet writing in the Awadhi dialect of Hindi Jan van der Noot - Das Buch Extasis, Dutch poet writing in German, Cologne

Births October 7 (baptism) – John Marston (died 1634), English playwright, poet, and satirist Also Charles Fitzgeoffrey (died 1638), English Elizabethan poet and clergyman Jean Ogier de Gombauld (died 1666), French playwright and poet John Weever (died 1632), English poet and antiquary

Deaths January 19 – Hans Sachs (born 1494), German Meistersinger Girolamo Muzio (born 1496), Italian, Latin-language poet Mavro Vetranović (born 1482), Croatian writer, poet and Benedictine friar Lu Zhi (born 1496), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet

See also

Poetry 16th century in poetry 16th century in literature Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature Elizabethan literature French Renaissance literature Renaissance literature Spanish Renaissance literature

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